This playwright was the first president of the Czech Republic.

This is the largest forest on the planet and stretches across Russia.

This social movement happened in Poland and shut down shipyards in Gdansk.

This mountain range is shaped like a backwards "C" and is the second longest mountain range in Europe.

These were the original Turkish settlers.

This man was the leader of the Solidarity union that shut down shipping in Gdansk, which led to free election in Poland.

This is another name for an arctic plain.

This reform instituted in the late 1980s literally translates as "openness" and gave new freedoms to the Russian people.

Stretching from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, this mountain range separates Russia from Turkey.

A group of islands is known as this.

Desiring a warm water port and a "window to the West," this Russian leader built St. Petersburg.

This broad, treeless, grassland formation is noted especially for its rich soil and lies south of the taiga in Russia.

This is the overarching term for the privatization of the Russian economy under Mikhail Gorbachev.

Traditionally, this mountain range separates Europe and Asia.

This is a small part of a country located completely away from the main part of the country.

Elected in the late 1980s, this leader instituted policies of perestroika and glasnost.

This type of soil is gray, infertile and prevalent in the tundra.

This is the process of driving other ethnic groups out of regions captured by Serbs; this process is usually carried out through mass murder and terror.

This mountain range is the "backbone" of Italy.

Two part answer: This is the name of a giant, slow-moving sheet of ice AND the name of an area of high, flat land.

This man is the most famous Polish Catholic ever.

This type of soil is located in the Russian steppe, particularly the Ukraine, and is extremely fertile.

This term refers to the act of breaking up nations into smaller, politically hostile countries, and was given this name due to the peninsula where this first took place.

This Bulgarian mountain range sounds like something a person may do upon encountering an unknown cave.

This mineral requires extreme amounts of energy to refine, therefore refineries of this mineral are usually located next to rivers or in countries with cheap power.